Here are some enjoyable, easy-to-implement exercises that may be used at home or in the classroom to help children develop essential pre-reading abilities. As well as the regular stuff you do with your kids at home, here are some extra things to try as one of the best early childhood initiatives.
Read to Your Child Every Day
Reading aloud to your kids can help them develop essential literacy skills.
Your reading aloud to your infant may serve only as a calming distraction before he drifts off to sleep, but as he develops, he’ll understand that the book has meaning.
Instilling a love of reading and showing that you value reading time together may be accomplished by reading to your older children, even if they can already read.
Ask Questions
Posing questions to yourself while you read is a great way to improve your ability to understand what you’re hearing and to drive higher-order thinking.
Include a range of questions, such as those that probe for cause and effect, forecasts, and subjective assessments.
Read Your Child Rhymes and Poems
Songs, poetry, and chants are great entry points for teaching rhyming. Children can use them to begin reading with their guidance. Bring attention to the syllable pairs while you sing.
Using familiar sounds and basic patterns like a (can, man, ran, pan) or ip (it, poop, pig, stoat (tip, rip, lip, sip).
You may go on to rhyming activities when your youngster is old enough to play with sounds.
Develop Your Child’s Listening Skills
Help your child hone their listening skills by having them listen to a word, memorize it, and then mentally delete a letter. Start by using complex terms.
Though challenging at first, this exercise is excellent for training one’s ear and enhancing one’s capacity to manage one’s auditory environment.
First, you should respond to your child until they fully grasp the concept and can work it out independently.
Give Your Child Motivation to Read
Before learning to read, a youngster must be motivated to figure out what’s written on the page.
A baby must be more interested or mature enough to decipher the secret message in his plastic bath book.
Children who have formed a sense of print and listened to their parents read bedtime stories may express an interest in reading along with the text once they reach a specific reading level.
Improve Your Child’s Listening Comprehension
A child’s listening comprehension has improved when they can ask and answer questions about a tale or describe what has been read or heard.
Conclusion
Children are ready to read when they have the phonological awareness to decode words.
I trust you had fun with these pre-reading exercises for kids in pre-K and kindergarten. Remember that young children need time to develop their pre-reading and pre-writing abilities before you introduce them to formal education. These are one of the most important early childhood initiatives that can be done for a child.
